Product Description

Description

The latest member of the Dragon Medical family, it’s designed and priced especially for smaller practices to help clinicians accelerate adoption of their chosen EHR. Using Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 ensures clinicians document care more completely and ‘in their own words’. Clinicians using Dragon Medical solutions have experienced substantially greater satisfaction than clinicians who use the EHR without Dragon Medical.

Available only for practices of 24 physicians or less, Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 is 99% accurate ‘out of the box’ and includes medical vocabularies covering more than 90 medical specialty and subspecialty vocabularies. It allows clinicians to dictate in their own words, generating ‘once and done’ documentation, which they can then review.

Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 lets clinicians use a narrative format to dictate the elements of a patient encounter where clinicians need to document care in their own words, including the History of Present Illness, Review of Systems, Physical Examination, and Assessment and Plan. Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 supports HIPAA patient confidentiality guidelines, a critical requirement for any practice concerned with patient confidentiality.

Clinicians also save additional time by using customized macros to enter frequently-dictated text with a single voice command. Additionally, the Dragon Medical Template Library—a library of more than two dozen macros for standard notes and an extensive list of ‘medical normals’ by body system—facilitates rapid note creation. Overall, Dragon Medical solutions dramatically reduce the time clinicians spend documenting care—saving 30 minutes or more a day, according to a number of studies.

Recognition accuracy

Turns your voice into text with up to 99% accuracy. Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 is over 20% more accurate ‘out of the box’ than the previous version.

Smart configuration

Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 runs on a variety of hardware, from small netbooks to high-powered servers. The software automatically detects hardware resources and sets up the recommended configuration. Its state-of-the-art technology takes advantage of advances in hardware and runs in multiplethreads automatically when multi-core hardware is detected, to achieve better recognition performance.

Recognition analytics

A percentage of misrecognitions can be caused by simple audio quality issues, such as incorrect microphone connection or placement, background noise, and microphone out of range or low on battery. Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 automatically detects poor audio input; it then alerts the user (in various ways depending on the issue), offering advice to remedy the situation. This lets Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 use the best audio possible—an important factor for accuracy.

In the past, corrections entered using the keyboard were not incorporated into the user profile. Now, when a user dictates something and retypes it to correct a misrecognition, Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 identifies this as a correction and uses it to adapt the user’s profile, improving the software’s accuracy over time.

Help system and tutorials

The Help system incorporates new tips and illustrations, a redesigned Tutorial, short videos, and easy access to related details such as a glossary of key terms.

Flexible input

Use your iPhone and Android devices for speech recognition input.

Navigating the computer desktop

Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 now supports more voice commands to show common Windows® elements, including the desktop and Control Panel, or folders such as My Documents and My Pictures. New commands enable users to effortlessly switch to a specific window (Dragon Medical displays a numbered list so the user can just say the number of the desired window). In addition, Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 allows shorter names for starting popular applications (e.g., “start Microsoft Word” instead of “start Microsoft Office Word 2007”).

Improved playback

Smoother fast-forward and rewind behaviors are now available and users now have options to control speed and volume.

Initial training time reduced for digital recording devices

Creating a new user profile for a digital recorder, or adding a digital recorder as a new audio source for an existing user profile, is now much faster: the minimum reading time required to train Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 with a recorder has been reduced from 15 to 4 minutes. That means clinicians can spend more time providing patient care.

Text and graphics commands with voice fields. Quickly automate form-filling applications. Users can now create text and graphics commands in the MyCommands Editor, which contains fields with a list of values that can be specified at the time of dictation.

Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 includes dozens of additional features and enhancements, which are categorized below for ease of review.

Special new acoustic software makes recognition with your Bluetooth headset higher than ever.

NAVIGATION AND CONTROL FEATURES

Medical search commands

Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 offers multiple voice shortcuts for searching medical information on the Web. Physicians can now search medical data via a single command on WebMD®, UpToDate®, PubMed™, and ICD-9 at any time, without even having an Internet browser open. These commands combine multiple clicks into one fast command for the busy physician. Simply say, “Search UpToDate for Wellbutrin contraindications”, and Dragon Medical and UpToDate take you there.

Voice shortcuts to search the web

Dragon Voice Shortcuts collapse common tasks into simple voice commands. Now you can search the Web faster than ever before.

Quick voice formatting (delete and format commands)

In addition to the many existing editing commands such as “Delete line”, Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 introduces direct commands for formatting, deleting, and copying named words and passages. Rather than selecting the relevant word(s) or passage and commanding what to do with that text (e.g., “Select very, [pause] Bold that”), you can now directly name the desired text with the desired action in a single voice command, such as “Bold very”.

More powerful capitalization rules

Users can instantly set capitalization rules for words as they are added for the following word categories: Person, Department, and Drugs. Clinicians can have capitalization set to initialcaps, all-caps, or no-caps for the categories.

Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 allows clinicians to dictate anywhere in an EHR system, while reviewing Lab Tests, Patient History, or Current Medications. Clinicians no longer have to click back and forth between information they’re reviewing and the dictation window. They dictate while reviewing information, and the improved Hidden Mode feature allows the clinician to paste the dictation directly where he or she wants it.

Voice commands specific to each EHR reduce the amount of searching and mouseclicks needed to move to the right screens.

‘Free text’ open dictation of medical decision-making (History of Present Illness, Assessment, Plan, and other elements of a medical note), directly into the EHR eliminates the need for clinicians to type.

Clinicians who use Dragon Medical Practice Edition report that it significantly improves their enjoyment of practicing medicine. By allowing them to use their time more effectively, clinicians’ quality of life is improved.

Eliminate transcription by speech-enabling the EHR, freeing up resources to focus more on patients and invest in methods to help practice efficiency. Practices that are using Dragon Medical Practice Edition today are dramatically reducing transcription costs, ranging from $500 to $1,000 a month per physician.

Support higher level of reimbursement

Independent studies have shown that clinicians create more detailed notes with Dragon Medical Practice Edition than with notes built with ‘point and click’, template-only EHR menus.

Increase practice volume

Faster, more accurate response reduces time spent on dictation, allowing clinicians to see more patients and increase practice revenue and profitability.

Exclusively in Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 it is now possible to configure the Dictation Window’s appearance when it is set to receiveany spoken text, independent of whichapplication is active during dictation. The Dictation Box can be set to be hidden or visible with customizable transparency according to the user’s preference allowing to view the recognized text even though another application, like, an EHR or RIS are active at the time.

FASTER PROCESSORS YIELD FASTER PERFORMANCE

If you use Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 on a computer with multi-core processors and more than 4 GB of RAM, Dragon Medical Practice Edition automatically selects the BestMatch V speech model for you when you create your user profile in order to deliver faster performance.

BETTER PERFORMANCE

Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 boosts performance by delivering easier correction and editing options, and giving you more control over your command preferences, letting you get things done faster than ever before.

UPDATED RICH INTERNET APPLICATIONS SUPPORT

Dragon Medical Practice Edition’s Rich Internet Application feature enhances Dragon Medical Practice Edition’s functionality in selected browser-based applications: in these applications it provides Full Text Control as well as commands to access elements found in the main interface of the web page.

Rich Internet Application (RIA) extensions are available in the following Web browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 9 or 10, 32-bit only

Mozilla Firefox

Google Chrome

Important: the makers of Firefox and Chrome frequently release new versions of their browser.

If you wish to use the enhanced capabilities provided by the plug-in, check your web browser’s settings to make sure the plug-in is enabled.

INTERACTIVE TUTORIAL

Proposed at the end of profile creation and available any time from the Help menu, the Interactive Tutorial offers short progressive simulations to help you practice good dictation, correction and editing habits so that you can create text efficiently within just a few minutes. Even experienced Dragon Medical Practice Edition users can benefit from the Interactive Tutorial.

Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 adds support for wideband Bluetooth wireless headset microphones, and you can get up and running quickly. When it detects that the USB dongle of a certified wideband microphone is plugged into the PC, Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 offers “Enhanced Bluetooth” as an audio source type and does not require a script to get started.

DRAGON REMOTE MICROPHONE APP FOR IOS AND ANDROID

Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 lets you go wireless with an iOS or Android device and the free Dragon Remote Microphone App. Turn your compatible iPhone, iPod touch (4th generation), iPad or Android device into a wireless microphone for use with Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 over a WiFi network. And it’s easier than ever to get started – simply use the camera on your device to scan the barcode that Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 provides on-screen.

REMOTE DESKTOP CONNECTION

Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 now supports remote use on a computer running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 Ultimate. With Microsoft’s free Remote Desktop Connection software (formerly called Terminal Services Client), you can use Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 from a local Windows computer on which Dragon Medical Practice Edition itself is not installed. While Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 is running on the server, multiple Windows clients can use it simultaneously.

SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT OFFICE 2013

Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 now supports Office 2013 with the same functionality for the same currently supported applications available in earlier versions of Office. For more information, see the product help. To access the File tab in Office 2013 applications, say the command “Click File Tab”. For more information, see the product Help.

SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER 10

Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 now supports Internet Explorer 10 with the same functionality that was found in Internet Explorer 9. For more information, see the product Help.

USABILITY IN WINDOWS 8

In Windows 8, Microsoft introduced major changes for end-users, compared to previous versions, but offers an interface similar to the familiar desktop (minus its Start menu button). Even though Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 is designed to be used primarily on the Windows desktop, Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 includes a small toolbar, the Dragon Audio Bar, which lets you use Dragon Medical Practice Edition’s microphone button outside the desktop environment. There are some restrictions on using Dragon Medical Practice Edition outside the desktop environment.

Specialties

Dragon® Medical Practice Edition 2 contains medical vocabularies covering more than 90 medical specialties and subspecialties. It is important that you select the correct vocabulary. Using a specialized medical vocabulary that covers the cases you see in your medical practice will offer you the highest recognition and productivity gains. Selecting a non-medical vocabulary or the medical vocabulary of a different specialty can have a significant impact on your recognition accuracy.

FAQ

EHRs offer the potential to dramatically improve the cost and quality of healthcare. Despite this potential, EHR software is used by only 57% of clinicians in the U.S. today. In order to understand the potential benefits of Dragon® Medical Practice Edition 2, it is important to articulate the factors that are driving U.S. healthcare toward EHR adoption, as well as the factors that are inhibiting EHR adoption.

Incentive payments to physicians have dramatically accelerated EHR software purchasing and implementation. Passed in 2009, the Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) provides physicians up to $64,000 each ‘for showing that they are meaningfully using health information technology’, by purchasing and using CCHITcertified (www.cchit.org) EHRs. According to the 2010 CapSite Ambulatory EHR and PM Study, 42% of all physician practices indicated they had purchased an EHR in the previous two years— up from 37% a year earlier.

Physicians must also purchase EHRs in order to report to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) a number of Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs), as well as maintain Problem Lists and Medication Lists. Clearly, EHR templates are required to capture these elements of the patient encounter to meet CMS guidelines.

Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 is the speech recognition solution from Nuance® Healthcare designed for use not only by doctors but also nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, therapists, and other care providers. For practices with less than 25 physicians, Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 is the only real-time speech recognition solution which fits busy clinicians’ needs.

This solution turns voice into text three times faster than most people can type, with up to 99% accuracy, using any Windows®-based EHR system. Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 includes vocabularies covering more than 90 medical specialties.

WHY USE DRAGON MEDICAL PRACTICE EDITION?

Here are just a few reasons why Dragon Medical Practice Edition is for you:

Improves the quality, efficiency, and profitability of the care you provide

Raises clinician satisfaction

Physicians who use Dragon Medical Practice Edition report that it makes the practice of medicine more enjoyable and that they can get home in time for dinner—no more late nights and weekends catching up on dictating/typing and signing patient charts.

Accelerates EHR adoption

Clinicians can dictate the ‘medical decisionmaking’— History of Present Illness, Review of Symptoms, Assessment and Plan—while within the EHR.